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Happy Sunday! It's time for a new challenge over at the Sunday Stamps blog and this week we have a fun color challenge to play along with.

I always struggle with pink because I absolutely despise the color. After thinking about it for a while I decided to plan ahead and create a Christmas card for one of my best friends. She absolutely adores flamingoes and during the summer months has a bunch of plastic ones that she puts in her yard. It's quite the sight to see!

From the graphic I used the 2 shades of pink and the navy blue. My neutral color is gray and I snuck in a few small pops of color for the light strand.

My layout is from the current sketch over at Freshly Made Sketches. The shaded snow/ice behind the flamingos is in place of the heart and the flamingoes are in place of the greenery.

Make sure you head on over to the Sunday Stamps blog to see what the rest of the DT created and then play along with us, we'd love to see what you'd do with these colors. There is also still time to play along with the Freshly Made Sketches challenge!

So Much Love

Happy Sunday! It's time for a new challenge over at the Sunday Stamps blog and this week we have a fun color challenge for everyone!

For my card I decided to use a Stampin'Up! set called Love For You. I used 4 of the colors from the graphic, all of them being 2022-2024 InColors.

The inspiration for my layout came from the current Freshly Made Sketches challenge. The "for" and "you" are in place of the 2 circles along the main circle and they are popped up for added dimension.

Make sure and head on over to the Sunday Stamps blog to see what the rest of the DT created and then play along with us! There is also still some time to play along with Freshly Made Sketches, their challenge closes at noon PST on 3/20.

Forever Friends

Good evening! I'm squeaking in with a card for the current Freshly Made Sketches challenge that ends at noon PST on Monday.

As soon as I saw the sketch I knew I wanted to use the set Sky High Friends from MFT. I just love these hot air balloon images, they can be used for any occasion. For this card I grabbed a sentiment from the MFT Little Love Notes set for a friendship theme, as I'm going to give the card to one of my very best friends.

When looking at the card I can see how the different elements fit into the sketch so I hope everyone else can too (except for the sentiment, I know that isn't part of the sketch).

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Thanks Friend

Happy Sunday! It's time for a new challenge over at the Sunday Stamps blog and this week we have a fun color challenge to play along with.

For my card I used the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches, it was perfect for the patterned paper I wanted to use for my colors.

I used a die from MFT to cut rectangles from the various paper and then I just arranged them in a row across the card base. I then used a 'thanks' die from MFT, cutting it out several times so I could stack it for more dimension, as my sentiment. After placing the "thanks" sentiment on the card I used a Wink of Stella pen to add some glitter. The "friend" stamp is also from MFT.

This was a super easy card that came together pretty quickly!

Make sure and head over to the Sunday Stamps blog to see what the rest of the DT created and then play along with us. There is also time to still play along with the sketch at Freshly Made Sketches!

To the Core

I'm late, I'm late! I might as well stamp that on my forehead because it seems like I'm never on time with my crafting anymore! All I can say is that it's going to get worse before it gets better LOL

We're in the middle of a brand new color challenge over at Sunday Stamps and the colors are gorgeous fall ones! As soon as I saw this palette I knew I wanted to use it with the new MFT Pure Innocence stamp Apple of My Eye.

I used the current sketch over at Freshly Made Sketches for my layout, pulling the colors I used to color my image for my papers. I went with green and yellow for the rectangle panels, a white card base and then a white sentiment strip with orange ink for the text. I popped up both the image and the sentiment strip for added dimension.

Head on over to the Sunday Stamps blog to see what the rest of the DT created and then play along with us, you have until Fri. Sept.16th at 6pm EST to join us. There is also still time to play along with Freshly Made Sketches, their link closes at noon PST Monday the 12th!

Love and Warmth

It's time for a new Sunday Stamps challenge and this week we have a great color challenge. I especially love the graphic, it features my very favorite mushroom, the Fly Agaric. I have a ton of them in my yard right now!

Fly Agarics in various stages in my yard

For my card I used a new set from SU called Ringed With Nature. I'm a sucker for anything woodsy and this set can be used year round. I used Crumb Cake, Poppy Parade and Crushed Curry DSP for my papers and for the wood I used Early Espresso and Crumb Cake. The little mushrooms were made with Poppy Parade and Crumb Cake and I added the dots with a white gel pen.

My layout is from the current sketch over at Freshly Made Sketches. It was just what I needed for what I had in mind for this set.

Make sure you head on over to the Sunday Stamps blog to see what the rest of the DT came up with and then play along with us! There is also still time to play along with Freshly Made Sketches and their challenge!

Christmas in July

Happy Monday! It's time for a new Blossom Challenge over at the Power Poppy blog and this month it's all about Christmas in July. Anybody who knows me knows how much I love Christmas so I am thrilled with this theme!

For my card I went with one of my very favorite sets, Season's Greenings. I just love the little Santa in this set and so that is the image I went with for my card.

My card layout came from the current sketch over at Freshly Made Sketches. As soon as I saw it I knew I wanted to use it for this card!

Don't forget, by entering the challenge with a Power Poppy image you are in the running to win a $20 gift code to the Power Poppy store. How awesome is that? Marcy has also discounted all of the Christmas digi's in the Happiest Holiday Category. If you like the image I used on my card you can find it HERE in the store!

Head over to these fellow Bloomie Blogs to see what they created for Christmas in July!

Christine

Gloria

Pink Dragon

Happy Sunday! It's time for a brand new challenge over at the Sunday Stamps blog and this week we have a fun color challenge!

I was a bit stumped on what to do with my card, I didn't want to do flowers or berries so after thinking about it for a while I decided to pull out the Magical Friends set from MFT. A good friend of mine has granddaughters that love dragons so they were my inspiration when coloring up with pink dragon.

My inspiration for the layout came from the current sketch over at Freshly Made Sketches.

Make sure and head on over to the Sunday Stamps blog to see what the rest of the DT created and then play along with us! There is also still time to play along with Freshly Made Sketches, they close their link on Monday at noon PST!

Dashing By

It was a busy weekend with a road trip to Denali National Park but this afternoon I managed to squeeze in some time to play along with the current sketch over at Freshly Made Sketches!

I've had this Pure Innocence image colored and sitting on my desk for a while now and really needed to figure out what to do with it. When I saw the FMS sketch I thought it would be the perfect layout for this image!

I used  MFT dies to cut my squares out of some retired SU DSP and then I popped my image up over the squares, pointed a tad down so it looked like she had some forward motion. Then I took my sentiment and stamped it underneath the bottom square. To finish the card off I took some of the tree DSP (middle square) and put a strip of that across the bottom inside of the card. Easy peasy!

There is still a bit of time to play along with the current Freshly Made Sketches challenge, they close it at noon PST on Mondays! 

Bewitchingly Cute

It's time for a new challenge over at the Sunday Stamps blog and this week we have a great color combo for everyone to work with!

As soon as I saw these colors I immediately thought of Halloween . Maybe it's because fall is quickly approaching here in Alaska or maybe it's just because I'm ready for Halloween but either way that's what I went with for my card! I used the orange, purple and green colors from the graphic.

I used the set 'Boo Crew' from MFT and used the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches for the layout. I haven't played along with them in ages so it was nice to be able to join in on their challenge too! It took me a bit to decide how I wanted to do the background but I finally decided on the embossed spiderweb background using a SU folder.

Make sure to head on over to the Sunday Stamps blog to see what the rest of the DT created and then play along with us, we'd love to see how you use these colors!

Hope Your Day Blooms

I'm stuck home getting over COVID ( I had a very mild case, nothing too serious compared to what others have dealt with) and today I finally had some energy to go into my craft room and create. I decided to play along with Freshly Made Sketches since the current challenge ends Monday at noon.

For my card I used an image from a retired Power Poppy set called Bloomin' Wonderful. I just love this simple image that captures the beginning of spring so perfectly (not that I'll see any color for a while, we still have 2 ft of snow at my place!). I colored it with copics and then used a die from MFT to cut the paper similar to how the sketch is. It's not quite the same but I think it's close enough that you can still see the sketch.

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Happy Wishes

I've been wanting to play along with the current Freshly Made Sketches challenge all week and finally found some time today to create! 

As soon as I saw this sketch I knew it would work perfectly with the now-retired set from Power Poppy called Natural Beauties. Thankfully although the clear set is retired you can still find the images in 2 digital sets in the Power Poppy store, HERE and HERE.

My card is one layer. I stamped the image across the bottom and then colored it with my copic markers. After I finished coloring it I stamped a sentiment from the set in green ink. Nice and simple!

There is still time to play along in the sketch challenge, they close it at 12pm PST Monday!

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Thinking of You

I'm jumping in and playing along with the current sketch at Freshly Made Sketches. A friend needed me to make a card for a male friend of hers battling cancer and so I wanted to keep it simple. The sketch by Jen M. was the perfect thing!

I used the SU set Rustic Retreat and stamped the deer and sentiment in Soft Suede, adding a bit of Mossy Meadow to the grass under the deer. The paper is from the Neutrals DSP pack and I used the wood pattern in Soft Suede and Mossy Meadow. For a little extra visual punch I did some paper piercing around all the edges.

The sketch does call for a square but Jen said we could also go rectangle if we preferred so that's what I did.

Blowing You a Kiss

It's time for a new challenge over at the Sunday Stamps blog and this week we have a fun color challenge for you!

For my card I used a Pure Innocence stamp from MFT called Winter Kisses. I used the reds from the graphics on her hat, scarf, gloves, coat pockets and boots and then the dark gray for the rest of her outfit. I snuck in a bit of the cinnamon color as her shirt that's visible below the scarf and her hair is also the cinnamon/brown color.

The layout is from this weeks Freshly Made Sketches. I haven't been able to play along with them in what seems like forever and this weeks sketch is such a fun one! My patterned paper came from a Christmas pad that I picked up at Michaels.

The sentiment from the new MFT PI was a bit too long so I used a sentiment from a retired PI that worked perfectly with this image!

Head on over to the Sunday Stamps blog to see what the rest of the DT created and then play along with us, we'd love to see what you do with these colors! There is also still some time left to play with Freshly Made Sketches!

Merry Christmoose

It's been a while since I've been able to play along with a challenge so since I was crabby and needed some creative time earlier today I decided to lock myself in my craft room for a bit and play along with the current Freshly Made Sketches challenge.

For my card I used the newly released Forest Fellas set from Power Poppy. I just adore this moose! I grabbed some plaid paper for the back square and mounted it all on some green patterned paper with a brown card base. The sentiment was stamped in red on a white banner and the moose head popped up with dimensionals. Quick and easy but enough to make me feel better and ready to join the household again :)

Cozy Christmas

I needed to get some cards done for a swap and where is the first place I turn to for layout inspiration? Freshly Made Sketches of course! Layouts are always my biggest obstacle but thankfully they had the perfect sketch this week to get my brain pushed into gear.

For my card I used the SU DSP Trimming the Town and the Home Together dies to cut out the houses. I then used the same DSP to cut a square for the background, which is a snowy forest scene. I positioned the 2 smaller houses to the left and the right and then for the middle portion I popped up the large house with dimensionals. The Coming Home stamp set doesn't have any sentiments so I used one from the Merry Moose set, I thought it went perfectly with the scene I created.

Quick and easy cards with no coloring on them whatsoever, which is very rare for me. I do love these houses though!

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Explore More

Hubby had 5 teeth pulled yesterday so we're having a nice quiet weekend at home, which allowed me to spend some time in the craft room. This weeks Freshly Made Sketches challenge is nice and simple so I was the perfect time to jump in and play along.

I recently colored this Fly Agaric image from Power Poppy during the 30 Day Marker Challenge. I LOVE these mushrooms, they are my absolutely favorite. They are Amanita Muscaria aka Fly Agaric but I call them the Alice in Wonderland mushrooms. The transformation and colors they go through during their short life span is just mesmerizing. If you follow me on Instagram you may have seen my photo series last year when I followed 2 Fly Agarics over a weeks time and showed how quickly they transformed. From their colors to their size it's just a fun change to watch! I normally see the Fly Agarics in mid to late Aug but this year they started popping up all over my yard in July. I'm guessing it's because we've had a pretty wet summer.

I used some retired SU DSP for my strip going down the side (the opposite side of that paper has pics of Fly Agaric, that's why I bought several packs LOL). The sentiment was stamped in Poppy Red and the image panel is popped up with dimensionals.

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                                        Fly Agaric mushrooms in my yard in late July 2020.

Sunny Days Ahead

It's time for a new challenge over at the Sunday Stamps blog and this week we have a fun color challenge for everyone!

When I started my project for these colors I actually started with a flower image and I was going to use the yellow, orange and green. Well, have you ever had an idea in your head and then when you try and put it to paper it fails miserably? That's what happened to me. I tried and tried but I just was not happy with what was going on with my idea so I ended up throwing it all away and starting fresh. I looked around my craft desk and spotted a new MFT Pure Innocence set that I hadn't inked up yet and I thought the image would be perfect with these bright colors.

I used the pink, orange, yellow and blue for my card. I was stuck on the layout so the current Freshly Made Sketches sketch was the perfect thing to use. I used some retired SU DSP to create a pool going up and down and some sunshine going back and forth. 

Head on over to the Sunday Stamps blog to see what the rest of the DT created and then play along with us! There is also still time to play along with the gals over at Freshly Made Sketches!